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Tanzania Livestock Modernization Initiative
Half of all households in Tanzania keep livestock. The Tanzania Livestock Modernization Initiative is aimed at improving the livelihoods of traditional and small-scale livestock farmers and increasing the contribution of livestock to the national economy. The 40-page report prepared by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development with the support of the International Livestock Research […]
Cross-border mobility of Kenyan & Tanzanian Maasai
Using a recent incident of closing borders to movement of Maasai pastoralists between Kenya and Tanzania, Fiona Flintan reflects on how changes in land use and pressure on land are leading to changes in the traditional practices of reciprocal resource sharing between different groups of livestock-keepers, also across borders. This restriction in mobility of the […]
Conservation and land grabbing in African & Asian rangelands
In March 2013, people from conservation NGOs, development organisations and human rights groups met to explore interactions between conservation, large-scale land acquisition and community land rights. The meeting was organised by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED)’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group, the International Land Coalition (ILC), the Zoological Society of London and […]
Violence against pastoralists in southeastern Tanzania
The CELEP member organisation IWGIA (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs) has published a 6-page Briefing Note “Ethnic violence in Morogoro Region in Tanzania” (March 2015) about human rights violations committed towards Maasai and Datoga pastoralists in the Morogoro Region in southeastern Tanzania. The note includes an analysis of the situation and recommendations to the […]
Kenyan pastoralists’ views on Rift Valley Fever
As part of the research programme on Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa, the STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre has brought out a report on “Rift Valley fever in Kenya: policies to prepare and respond” as Political Economy of Knowledge and Policy Working Paper 82 (March 2015, 39pp). Rift Valley fever […]